Poverty quotes

“- John L. Bridges: It's getting dangerous to be poor in this country.
- James Averill: It always was.”

Jeff Bridges - John L. Bridges
Kris Kristofferson - James Averill

“Don't feel sorry for me. I started out poor, and I worked my way up to outcast.”

Dolly Parton - Mona Stangley

“- Ben Jahveri: Oh, now, now we are un-employers.
- Fred: Oh, look, we still got all of the robot parts in the van; I can get a new staff together...
- Ben Jahveri: But we are having no more money and now we are having no equipment. To assemble the robots with our naked hands, it would be slower than - than moles' asses in January.”
Fisher Stevens - Ben Jahveri
Michael McKean - Fred Ritter

“There's no nobility in poverty.”
Charlie Sheen - Bud Fox

- Luigi: Hey, Mario! Right now on "Miraculous World", this guy just found out he was in another dimension.
- Mario: The only thing miraculous I know is that we're still eating while we're going broke.
- Luigi: We aint going broke, Mario, we're already there!
John Leguizamo - Luigi Mario
Bob Hoskins - Mario Mario

“- Fred Waters: Here's six bucks. You can have fun all day on that.
- Preston Waters: You don't get out much, do you Dad?”
James Rebhorn - Fred Waters
Brian Bonsall - Preston Waters

“When gentlemen start talking about principles, we poor people lose what we don't even have!”
Jenny Gago - La Garduna

“- Boo-Boo Bear: But Yogi, the Ranger's not going to like it.
- Yogi Bear: What's not to like about Robin Hood? I'll steal from the rich and give to a poor bear: me.”
Don Messick - Boo-Boo Bear
Daws Butler - Yogi Bear

“You're 30 cents away from having a quarter! Where the fuck you going to get a boat?”

Robin Harris - Sweet Dick Willie

“- Harriet M. Welsch: I hate money.
- Sport: You'd like it a lot more if you didn't have any.”
Michelle Trachtenberg - Harriet M. Welsch
Gregory Smith - Sport

“Why is it that some people starve and others have so much they waste it?”
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - Steerpike

“The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are non-existent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices.”
John Lawrence - Bearded Man

“The point is there's a gulf in this country; an ever-widening abyss between the people who have stuff, and the people who don't have shit. It's like this big hole in the ground, as big as the fucking Grand Canyon, and what's come pouring out is an eruption of rage, and the rage creates violence, and the violence is real.”

Steve Martin - Davis

“- Nick Hurley: When I was a kid all I wanted was to be able to afford to eat in restaurants like this.
- Alex Owens: Were you poor?
- Nick Hurley: I was so poor I had hand-me-down lunches.”
Michael Nouri - Nick Hurley
Jennifer Beals - Alex Owens

“Best buck 49 buffet in town.”

Randy Quaid - Cousin Eddie

“- Lady Lou: Yes, I wasn't always rich.
- Pearl: No?
- Lady Lou: No, there was a time I didn't know where my next husband was coming from.”
Mae West - Lady Lou
Louise Beavers - Pearl

“This is all you can eat...we only need one plate.”

Randy Quaid - Cousin Eddie

“Rich people and theorists - who are usually rich people - think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches - as disease might be called the lack of health.”

Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler

“- Claudia: He barely knows I'm alive, he cut my allowance.
- Jessie Bannister: He cut her allowance, honey!
- Mark Bannister: To what? $9000.00 a month?
- Claudia: He makes me drive his old Jaguar.
- Jessie Bannister: Now Claudia, some people have worse problems.
- Claudia: Like Who?
- Jessie Bannister: Like people who don't have cars.
- Claudia...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alison La Placa - Claudia
Kirstie Alley - Jessie Bannister
John Larroquette - Mark Bannister

“Where did you get that money? Look at it, and not an hour ago you hadn't a penny to warm your pocket. Did someone die and leave you a pot of gold?”

Margot Grahame - Katie Madden

“I'm sorry. We don't all have rich mommies and daddies we can live off of or open restaurants when we get bored playing tennis.”

Denis Colin Leary - Gus

“- Highway: Hey, Baby. You fool around on the first date?
- Little Mary: Oooooo [hugs Highway].
- Little Mary: Damn you, boy, don't you know how to write or call?
- Highway: Well, I didn't want you to spend any sleepless nights thinking about me.
- Little Mary: Come on, I'll get you a beer.
- Highway: Great. I could use one.
- Highway: You look...” (continue)(continue reading)
Clint Eastwood - Highway
Eileen Heckart - Little Mary

“- Amanda Minchin: You mean to tell me that the child is penniless, and she's left on my hands with nothing?
- Mr. Barrows: She's certainly left penniless, and she's certainly left on your hands.”
Mary Nash - Amanda Minchin
E.E. Clive - Mr. Barrows

“It occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.”
Denholm Elliott - Coleman

“We've got people in this country that can't even buy a meal! Ask a brother who's been downsized if he's gettin' any deal. Or a white boy bustin' ass till they put him in his grave, he ain't gotta be a black boy to be livin' like a slave.”
Warren Beatty - Jay Bulworth